Legal history of emergency medicine from medieval common law to the AIDSs epidemic

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 658-670

  Curran, William J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

'Anti Dumping Law'; AIDS epidemic; Antidiscrimination laws; Charitable hospitals; Duty of emergency care; Early common law; Emergency hospital law; Emergency medicine history; Emergency medicine law; Emergency Systems Act; Ethical obligations; Expert emergency witnesses; Good Samaritan Law; Hospital corporate liability; Hospital law; Legal history

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HISTORY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LIABILITY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030687973     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-6757(97)90182-0     Document Type: Review

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